Benjamin Thompson Lowne
1839–1925
Surgeon and naturalist. FRCS, LSA, 1873; MD, Durham, 1896. Collected plants in Palestine and Syria, 1863–4. Lecturer, physiology and general anatomy, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 1871–95; Royal College of Surgeons, 1876–80. Junior surgeon, Great Northern Hospital, 1874–6; ophthalmic surgeon from 1876. Lecturer in botany, Royal Veterinary College, from 1885.
Sources
BMD (Birth index)
R. Desmond 1994
Plarr 1930.
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
Plarr, Victor Gustave. 1930. Plarr’s lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Revised by Sir D’Arcy Power. 2 vols. London: Simpkin Marshall.
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